Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. founded on December 04, 1906, has supplied a voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans since its inception. It members have definitely changed history as we know it.

Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men with African ancestry, was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven distinguished visionaries. These men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood between African-Americans. The founders, known as the “Seven Jewels” are, in alphabetical order: Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle and Vertner Woodson Tandy.